industry observers

Red Hat fesses up to Fedora FOSS security fiasco

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 08/24/2008 - 09:12

A week or so ago, end users of the Linux-based Red Hat Fedora OS were warned to avoid downloading packages due to an "issue in the infrastructure systems" which waved big red flags suggesting a security breach to many industry observers.

Now Fedora has admitted Red Hat OpenSSH packages were compromised by two separate server intrusions..


 

Millionaires, Billionaires, and Open Source

Linux Today  Thu, 05/08/2008 - 20:50

Practical Technology: "Thanks to a recent column by my friend Andy Patrizio, I found out that there's 'been an ongoing debate among bloggers and industry observers over one simple question: Where are the open source billionaires...?'"